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• It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

  William Penn

  Men, Liberty, Obedience

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• There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

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  Real, Air, Forgive And Forget

  "Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims". Book by William Penn. Part 1: "Friendship", www.bartleby.com. 1682.

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• By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.

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  Believe, Exercise, Men

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.11

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• It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

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  People, Ignorant, Earth

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

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  Children, Evil, Mind

  William Penn (1793). “Fruits of a Father's Love: being the Advice of William Penn to his children, relating to their civil and religious conduct, etc. With a preface, signed J. R., i.e. Sir John Rodes”, p.4

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• Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.

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  Humility, Shining

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• Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

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  Book, Reading, Mind

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.446

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• Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

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  Hands, Clean, Ability

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

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  Men, Water, Bitterness

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• Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.

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  Men, Sides, Principles

  William Penn (1775). “Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition”, p.40

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• [I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

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  Men, People, Religion

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• The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

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  Inspirational, Ambition, Power

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.849

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• If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.

  William Penn

  Death, Art, Debtors

  Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn (1909). “The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”

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• A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.

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  Jealousy, Character, Men

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.853

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• Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.

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  Children, Sweet Love, Sobriety

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• Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

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  Men, Names, Want

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

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  Time, Learning, Past

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• Never chide with anger, but instruction.

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  Instruction

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• Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Keeping Promises

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

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  Men, Two, Ifs

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• A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

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  Art, Work, Grateful

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.127

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• You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.

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  Law, Grace, Sober

  Letter to those already residing in Pennsylvania, 1681.

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• I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

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  Kindness, Civility, Courtesy

  William Hepworth Dixon, William Penn (1851). “William Penn, a Historical Biography”, p.161

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• The public must and will be served.

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  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.65

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• Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

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  God, Kings, World

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